Composed of various education stakeholders from the academe, students, parents, government, non-government to business organization, the COALITION FOR BETTER EDUCATION believes in the vision: CREATING EMPOWERED LEARNING COMMUNITIES. We believe that only by creating and empowering communities to become learned wholistically will we be able to overcome ignorance and poverty in this country.

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I have always been spontaneous in responding to casual questions. I do not usually have to think too much or consume minutes to answer - or so I thought. Not until during our Commencement Rites, an innocent offhand question from my friend caught me by surprise.

What's in store for CBE in 2015?

While the past 13 years of CBE's existence focused on projects and partnerships, 2015 will be a year focusing on internal and organizational sustainability. We will be directing our efforts on activities and events that will provide sustainable growth to our

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CBE IN 2014 NEW

2014 Breezed quickly for CBE. Projects like the Global Filipino Teachers Program of Globe Telecom and Project TEACH of City Saving Bank kept the CBE staff on the road during the first quarter of the year to implement the monitoring and evaluation components. We also...

Acts of Faith By: Lorelee D. Asignacion

Every moment in life is an act of faith. Every inch of the cloak of courage we put on is sewn from the brand of audacity we muster. Though life in itself may give a whopping deal of stuff we don't understand, God's hands will...

My salutations to our CBE Pres. Jeff Tarayao, to our Executive Director Ma’am Luchi Flores, to all of the BODs, members and guests, Good evening ! And it would not be complete without me greeting you all, Magandang GenSan!...

CBE to conduct LEAP Series

The Coalition for Better Education (CBE) will hold a series of Mindshare sessions that is anchored on the theme of its 13th year Founding Anniversary: “Leading, Enabling, Advancing and Promoting Education for 21st Century Learning....

THE FAILING AND THE DREAMING Chiedizberg N. Jaca

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" - If a person asks you such question, what you will your response be? If you ask me, I'll probably answer EVERYTHING. I'll climb up to the Mt. Everest, land on the Moon, create a RoboCop, travel the universe and do anything that seems impossible to me. But life shakes you and...

In an effort to support the implementation of the K12 Basic Education Program, Globe Telecom, the leading telephone company in the country today through the Global Filipino Teachers Program (GFT), partnered with CBE in the conduct of the Peer Coaching – Advanced Course...

The K to 12 is a modernization of the Basic Education curriculum by adding two more years and equipping them with the proper Technical Vocational Skills for employment (DepEd, 2012). It introduces the...

From Palo to the WorldBy: Ernani Fernandez

My name is ERNANI FERNANDEZ, a high school TLE teacher from Palo, Leyte, Philippines.
I am also a Yolanda Survivor.
When Super Typhoon Yolanda hit the country on Nov.8, 2013, little would I know that this phenomenon, which I thought at first, has brought misery to my family, would be the same phenomenon that will also bring me to new and higher heights in my life as a teacher.

SCHOOL KIT DRIVE to SCHOOL CHILDREN

CBE M&E

The months of February and March prove to be a hectic period for CBE when it begins its series of monitoring and evaluation activities for teachers trained in its ICT Integration and PBL Approaches Program. 98 teachers from...

CBE links new project agreement with One Meralco Foundation

Energy Management in Schools becomes one of the agenda of CBE in 2013 as the organization recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement with One Meralco Foundation for a milestone project that will involve the development of energy management modules for K4-12...

CITY SAVINGS BANK'S LAUNCHED PROJECT TEACHBy: Chellow Ochea

City Savings Bank together with CBE launched its Project TeACH (Teach.Aspire.Challenge.Help) Program through the conduct of training on ICT Integration using Project-Based Learning Approaches. Project TeACH program aims to enhance the public school teachers by...

THEN THEY’RE THEREBy: Lorelee D. Asignacion, GFT Alumni

The home is the first school, the parents, the first teachers. When the kid comes out and confronts the real world, he actually projects how he was raised and nurtured during his years prior to school. Then he grows in every step… either sanitizing himself, or contaminating the society with the unwelcome character which will soon define him and his existence as an individual...

CBE WELCOMES APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS

CBE OFFICERS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 – 2014 ELECTED

The newly elected CBE board members met last September 13, 2013 at Simply J’s Restaurant to elect its officers for fiscal yeat 2013 - 2014. Re-elected and on his second year as president is Mr. Jeffrey Tarayao. Representing the NGO Sector, Mr. Tarayao is President of One Meralco Foundation and...

EDUCATION LEADERSHIP in the 21st CENTURYMONITORING &EVALUATION

Microsoft’s Education Leadership in the 21st Century Program for principals and school heads takes a step further as monitoring and evaluation activities were conducted to 29 trained school principalsfor its...

EDUCATION LEADERSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURYAugust 23-25, 2012

CBE ELECTS 2012-2013 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

In CBE’s recent General Membership Meeting (GMM) held last August 3, 2012 at the Fort San Pedro, elections were held to send two (2) members to replace outgoing Board of Trustees Dr. Clara Falconi of...